State Theater Gotha

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State Theater Gotha
The New Theater
location
Address: Downtown
City: Gotha
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 55 "  N , 10 ° 42 ′ 31"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 55 "  N , 10 ° 42 ′ 31"  E
Architecture and history
Opened: January 2, 1840
Burned out in 1945, the building was demolished in 1958

The Landestheater Gotha was a classical theater building in downtown Gotha . The building burned down due to the effects of the war and was later demolished.

history

Duke Ernst I of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha planned two new theaters in his residential cities of Gotha and Coburg . This led to tough disputes over the state budget between him and the state parliaments. Nevertheless, construction of the New Theater in Gotha began in 1837. After three years of construction, the theater was inaugurated on January 2, 1840, Duke Ernst I's 56th birthday.

The theater was built in the classical style according to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel by the Gotha architect and secret building officer Gustav Eberhard . Among other things, it had a foyer, a hall of mirrors, an auditorium with three tiers and a stage. In 1861/62 a renovation and expansion followed. The multi-part building consisted of the three-story auditorium and stage and two-story circumferential extensions. In the southern, semicircular extension was the vestibule with foyer. The façade had a plastered rustic structure on the ground floor, while Doric pilasters stood between the windows on the upper floor . The arched windows had a rectangular frame and horizontal cornices on consoles. The east facade was marked by a colonnade.

With Duke Ernst II of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , the second bloom of theatrical art began in Gotha. The drama took on a new status. Game operations took place alternately in Coburg and Gotha, in Gotha as a rule from January to the end of April, depending on the stay of the Duke and the court.

At the end of the Second World War, a transporter with ammunition standing next to the theater exploded. The building caught fire and burned out. The ruins of the theater stood until 1958. They were torn down against resistance from the Gotha population and replaced by a high-rise planned as a hotel. This should serve as accommodation for guests and athletes of the Winter Games in Oberhof . However, there was no such use.

In 1998 the high-rise was torn down and replaced by a department store complex.

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